All of Us with Wings

· RB Media · Narrated by Maria Liatis
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Michelle Ruiz Keil's #OwnVoices debut is a literary YA fantasy about love, found family, and healing-an ode to post-punk San Francisco through the eyes of a Mexican American girl. Seventeen-year-old Xochi is on her own in San Francisco, running from a painful past. On a visit to Golden Gate Park, she meets Pallas, a precocious twelve-year-old with a rockstar family that lives in one of the city's storybook Victorian mansions. Xochi accepts a position as Pallas's live-in governess and quickly becomes part of the band's household, fascinated by their free-love philosophy and the happy calm that balances out their glamorous music personas. But on the night of the Vernal Equinox, as a concert afterparty rages in the house below, Xochi and Pallas perform a pagan ritual that unintentionally summons a pair of ancient creatures devoted to righting the wrongs of Xochi's adolescence. She'd do anything to preserve her new life, but the nightmares of her past are never far behind: the mother who abandoned her, the man who betrayed her, and the loving grandmother whose death left Xochi alone in the world. With the creatures determined to exact vengeance on those who've hurt her, no one in Xochi's life is safe-not the family she's chosen, nor the one she left behind.

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5.0
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Angelika Keil
April 23, 2020
All of us with wings is a masterfully crafted story that explores themes of love in all of its forms; from the complex guilt-ridden love, we still hold for those who have betrayed or abandoned us to the love and hopes we hold for the children in our lives, to self-love gained from sexual pleasure and the experience of caring for others and losing someone you love. This book shows us the raw gorgeous journey of a young woman healing from violation and abuse, in all of its messiness and beauty. It is a story of finding yourself through finding a place and people who feel like home. Full of luscious prose and characters so real they seem to breathe of dialogue you can almost hear and sentences that melt like chocolate on your tongue this book is impregnated with magic, marinated in dark fairytales and full of deep truths that are painfully necessary. This story is like a great golden onion, layers of other stories, of creation myths and music, of movies and poetry, and the things that make a world feel real and visceral. This book joins a canon of great and important stories, the tales that change you, that feed you that tell you who you are. This is one of the best books in the world today, I hope that you decide to pick it up, open up to its magic, and let the words fill you and rearrange you, the spell will be with you for the rest of your life.
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